Traversing Ecological Disaster and introspecting Green Crisis in the non-fictions of Amitav Ghosh: An analytical outcome of discursive study

Abstract

The study of literature and environment is treated as ecocriticism of environmental ecocritism. This is an interdisciplinary study exploring ecological issues in view of climatic crisis . Anthropocene epoch, an evolution of literature-environment studies is believed to be the crucial reason for making ecological crisis. Amitav Ghosh is an internationally celebrated author of 20 historical fiction and non-fiction books. His selected non-fictions are The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, The Living Mountain, a fable for our times and The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a planet in Crisis. These works explore environmental crisis migration and globalisation. Literature has become the ultimate platform to provide concrete pictures of the changing society in respect of variation in attitude and ignorance of the human world for gaining short lived advantages. In this context Imperialism is the expansion of influence which entails the destruction of the environment to support imperial interests. Capitalism is the dominant economic system which leads to violence and destruction of the environment. Ghosh challenges us to think more deeply about the role of conquest and violence in shaping the planetary crisis we’re facing. This is the need to reshape our economic and social relations to address climate change. Ghosh seeks to explain our failure to address the urgency of climate change. He asks very powerfully whether the current generation is deranged by our inability to grasp the scale, violence and urgency of climate change.